Crossword clues for banquet
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Banquet \Ban"quet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banqueted; p. pr. & vb. n. Banqueting.] To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
Just in time to banquet
The illustrious company assembled there.
--Coleridge.
Banquet \Ban"quet\, v. i.
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To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets, I would not taste thy treasonous offer.
--Milton. -
To partake of a dessert after a feast. [Obs.]
Where they did both sup and banquet.
--Cavendish.
Banquet \Ban"quet\, n. [F., a feast, prop. a dim. of banc bench; cf. It. banchetto, dim. of banco a bench, counter. See Bank a bench, and cf. Banquette.]
A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
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A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats. [Obs.]
We'll dine in the great room, but let the music And banquet be prepared here.
--Massinger.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "feast, sumptuous entertainment," from French banquet (15c.; in Old French only "small bench"), from Old Italian banchetto, diminutive of banco "bench;" originally a snack eaten on a bench (rather than at table), hence "a slight repast between meals;" the meaning has entirely reversed. As a verb from 1510s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A large celebratory meal; a feast. 2 (context archaic English) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats. vb. 1 To participate in a banquet; to feast. 2 (context obsolete English) To have dessert after a feast. 3 To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A banquet (; ) is a large meal or feast, complete with main courses and desserts. It usually serves a purpose such as a charitable gathering, a ceremony, or a celebration, and is often preceded or followed by speeches in honor of someone.
A banquet is a large public meal or feast complete with main courses and desserts.
Banquet or The Banquet may also refer to:
Banquet is the fourth album by German progressive rock band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1974. By this time there was no hard rock sound, it was now strictly progressive rock mixed with jazz fusion. The song "Our World Is a Rock 'n' Roll Band" was the opening track on some versions (i.e. the U.S. version) of the original LP release, but the only CD releases to date do not include this track, which can instead be found as a bonus track on the Repertoire Records CD release of their self-titled debut.
"Banquet" is a song from British band Bloc Party's debut album Silent Alarm. Originally released on a double A-side single along with " Staying Fat" in May 2004 by Moshi Moshi Records, it was re-released as a regular single in the United Kingdom by Wichita Recordings on 25 April 2005. It was their first single to chart on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks where it came in at number 34, and is often credited as their breakthrough single in North America. The song is written in B-flat minor, an unconventional key signature for songs of such a genre. It was also featured in the song "Bloc Party" on the Fort Minor Mixtape: We Major. It was #31 in NME's top 100 tracks of the decade, and was number 54 in Triple J's Hottest 100 of all time. It peaked at #13 on the UK singles chart. In 2011, NME placed it at number 20 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
Usage examples of "banquet".
Bright, who had preceded us and stood in the midst like a General of Division, ordering autocratically and issuing commands for fresh supplies, as if he was going to banquet the southern district en musse.
Toli stood alone on the bartizan outside the banquet hall, overlooking a portion of the garden.
Everything about her, however--the crowded room, the bedizened banquet, the savour of dishes, the drama of figures--ministered to the joy of life.
Brian Boru had used it as his audience chamber as well as his banqueting hall, calculatedly awing visitors with an ostentatious display of gold cups and bejeweled goblets on every table in the room.
Lukien could see Trager and Breck waiting for them just outside the banquet room.
Trager and Breck into the banquet chamber, then asked the Reecians to proceed.
With a shooing gesture he ushered Trager and Breck into the banquet chamber, then asked the Reecians to proceed.
Cimmerian Fleet to a banquet, to be held at my Melos villa this evening.
Lord Jesus Christ, Himself the guest and banquet, is both the partaker and what is eaten.
I was less a partaker of their ploys and banquets, either at birth, bridal, or burial.
The doors at his back buckled inward and gave him egress, the darkened room a ghost-like configuration of white-clothed banquet tables bordered by empty chairs, the phasm of Nazi heydays everywhere.
She and the leading nobles of her company and the three envoys from Persia and we three Polos and most of the Khanbalik court all sat down with Kubilai to a farewell banquet in the same vast chamber where we had enjoyed our welcoming banquet so long before.
This sort of stuff is just a necessary prequel to the main event, a formal reception and banquet to which he has devoted the full-time attention of four ghosts.
His name was Tyler Durden, and he was a movie projectionist with the union, and he was a banquet waiter at a hotel, downtown, and he gave me his phone number.
Egyptian banquet, and that there are horrid, rattly skeletons sitting in all those high, covered chairs.